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To: OIA requests at New Zealand Police <[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Sandra Heke <[FOI #2753 email]>
Date: 22/05/2015 06:18PM
Subject: Official Information Act request - Evidential
Statement/information relating to the workplace death of Murray Ian
Christensen

Dear Senior Sergeant Ian Brenchley, Counties Manukau Police

Workplace Death of Murray Ian Christensen at 590 Koheroa Road,
 Mercer on 11/11/11

Please note on Officer's Evidential Statement Continuation Form (and we
 have had direct contact with her also), the  following, "ASN1, Senior
Sergeant Ian  Brenchley, ASH16, Constable Colin Pegg and AHS23, Constable
Steven Latham arrived on scene.  I briefed Senior  Sergeant  Ian
Brenchely, who then took over as Incident Controller. We conducted a scene
examination to establish what had  occurred"

Please provide to the  writer the following details  and information in
accordance  with the Official Information  Act 1982 as set out  in
Commissioner of  Police  v  Ombudsman  (1988).

Details of the physical exhibits including those  noted in Cherie
Elisabeth McLean's Officer's Evidential  Statement which states that a
"POL268 was completed and the  deceased's property  was seized.  The
property included: gumboots, socks, t-shirt, metallic bracelet, wrist
 watch  and a mobile  phone.  All property was secured in  the Pukekohe
Exhibits Store".

An explanation of why the above Evidential  Statement by Cherie Elisabeth
McLean's conflicts with that of the Initial  Report  by Coroner which
states, "All property (except t-shirt) was seized and  taken  to Pukekohe
Exhibits Store".  Please provide a copy of the Police Document POL268 to
establish if the t-shirt was secured in the Pukekohe Exhibits Store or
not. Which of these two Official Police Documents is incorrect and
therefore a false declaration?  

As the  Incident Controller, we request a full explanation  of where
Murray's green jumper went. It was clearly alongside Murray's body with
the t-shirt in the Official Police photos. Please provide full details  of
where the green  jumper was secured and  if  it wasn't, why not? Why was
it not given  to Cherie Elisabeth McLean to secure with the t-shirt in the
Pukekohe Exhibits store?

The Initial Report for Coroner states Suspicious Death: No. Please
 then explain and give a full explanation as to why you, as the Attending
Supervisor/CIB Investigator (as noted in the Initial Report for Coroner),
attended the scene and  took over from Cherie Elisabeth McLean, as
Incident Controller if the Death was not suspicious.

Please explain why the scene  was not   frozen? Or if it was,  why then
was the green jumper not secured in the Pukekohe Exhibits Store along with
the T-shirt seen in  Official Police Photos.

Did you  complete  an Evidential  Statement? Yes Or No? (If yes, please
 provide  a  copy of your Evidential Statement.  If No, please give a
reason as  to  why you did not  complete an  Official  Evidential
Statement relating to the workplace death of Murray Ian  Christensen at
590 Koheroa Road, Mercer on  the 11/11/11)

Did you complete any Police job sheet/notes in  connection to the above
case? Yes or No? (If yes, please prove a copy of your job sheets/notes.
 If No, please give a  reason  as to  why you did  not complete a job
sheet/notes in connection  to the  above case)

We require a full explanation as to why the Initial Report for
 Coroner has under Fatal Death: NO. Please provide all information
 and copies of documents which support that this was NOT a fatal
 death at 590 Koheroa Road, Mercer, or if this was a false
 statement, please give details and a clear explanation as to the
 reasons for this false declaration on an Official Document for the
 Coroner.

Yours faithfully,

Sandra Heke

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